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Schauerman Library Web Guides - Country Information

General Sources

To find books on a particular country, the Library of Congress classification DA - DU cover all countries EXCEPT the America's. The United States, Canada, and Central & South American countries can be found in the Library of Congress F area. You can ask for a LC summary pamphlet at the Reference desk to help you.

World Factbook           http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook

Portals to the World     http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html

Country Reports           http://www.countryreports.org/

International Monetary Fund Country Info.        http://www.imf.org/external/country/index.htm

Amnesty International Country Reports http://www.web.amnesty.org/web/ar2000web.nsf/countries

BBC News Country Profiles     http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/country_profiles/default.stm

Country Studies Area Handbooks         http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

IWRAW (International Women's Rights Action Watch) Country Reports            http://www.igc.org/iwraw/publications/countries/

Country Library            http://www.tradeport.org/ts/countries/

Yahoo! Regions: Countries       http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/

WorldSkip: news, information�from every nation on earth.       http://www.worldskip.com/

Political resources on the Web sorted by country.          http://www.politicalresources.net/

World Language Resources      http://www.worldlanguage.com/

World Area Studies      http://vax.wcsu.edu/socialsci/area.html

Atlapedia Online -maps and key facts and statistics       http://www.atlapedia.com/

World Government Resources  http://www.hg.org/govt.html

Council on Foreign Relations Latin America Studies Program    http://www.cfr.org/latinamerica/countries.html

LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center) http://lanic.utexas.edu/

The World�s Smallest Countries            http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa122997.htm

Lonely Planet Destinations        http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/

Embassies of Washington DC   http://www.embassy.org/embassies/

Country Watch http://www.countrywatch.com/

Background Notes  http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn

Economist Country Briefings    http://www.economist.com/countries

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